SphinxClient::setFieldWeights

(PECL sphinx >= 0.1.0)

SphinxClient::setFieldWeights — Set field weights

Description

publicboolSphinxClient::setFieldWeights
( array$weights
)

Binds per-field weights by name.

Match ranking can be affected by per-field weights. See » Sphinx documentation for an explanation
on how phrase proximity ranking is affected. This call lets you specify
non-default weights for full-text fields.

The weights must be positive 32-bit integers, so be careful not to hit
32-bit integer maximum. The final weight is a 32-bit integer too.
Default weight value is 1. Unknown field names are silently ignored.

Parameters

weights

Associative array of field names and field weights.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

See Also

User Contributed Notes 1 note

although the specs (both php & sphinx manuals) states that field weight should be positive integer, values lower than 1 (0 for example) would not work. Found this on a blog and i hope this will help you ...